CA hinges
 

Anyone have any reservations about CA hinges. I simply have never used them. Purchased a Pacific aeromodel Edge 540T 60/100 and it came with these hinges. Everything else about the kit looks so good, they have taken great care in all the components and hardware, the CA hinges must be the way to go?

RE: CA hinges
 

I have had no problem with them.

Be sure you use THIN CA. Medium or thick will cause problems because they won't wick into the hinge correctly. From my experienc... the cheap grade of thin CA seems to work really well for the hinges when its useless for anything else... (the 3 tiny bottles for $1 at the Dollar General chain stores are what I use on the hinges. Useless for building. Useless for repairing. Great for CA hinges.)

If you draw a line on each side of the hinge with grease pencil or crayon and be sure that line is the hinge line when you apply the CA, you won't have CA in the section that will bend. That will make the hince flex more freely and will make it survive longer. (they last about 5 years normal use this way.)

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I've been using CA hinges for a long time now and find them easy to install, strong, and very flexible. Drill a 3/32nd hole in the middle of each hinge slot to allow the thin CA to wick in better. LOL. Bill.

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There is a good article on here about CA hinge installation. Check it out. http://www.rcuniverse.com/magazine/a...?article_id=55

Learn to use them right and you will like them.

Now who is making popcorn or bringing peanuts, I have a few drinks to go around, time to set back and watch the fray.

Ed M.

RE: CA hinges
 

Many kits come with CA type hinges. I personaly have never used them as I think there is a better way. I make my own hinges using fabric covering which give me a gapless hinge which is very easy to install and is strong.

To make these hinges take two strips of fabric covering about an inch wide (or to your preference) and then sew them together back to back with the sticky side out. Now all you have to do is iron them on and then cover over the top of them with ultracote color of your choice.

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My latest crash, my beautiful seaplane. One ca hinge ripped out of the rudder (top), one ca hinge cracked in half (bottom), from the crash. I don't think it was the hinges fault though. This baby took a nose dive from way up there, smashed into a rock hard frozen lake [:@]
Its a long story but I'll explain for those interested. There was still a few feet of snow on the banks of the lake. So I tried taking off from there. But the snow was too soft, from warmer weather & rain the night b4. I couldn't get up enough speed. So I taxied it over onto the ice. In retrospect bad idea. I also had the water rudder down (should have had it up). So as I'm gaing speed to take off, the back rudder is bouncing along the ice, which I think either cracked one hinge, loosened the other or both. I did have a "fail safe" on the rudder by using covering as "hinge tape". Anyway it was flying ok for about a minute, was trying to trim it. Then it just started acting funny, no turning control. Then like I said took a nosedive right into the ice. A guy must have been watching from accross the lake. After the HUGE bang (its was a nasty sound), I heard someone from across the lake yell OH Sh*t. By the sound of it I thought for sure it would be totaled, but its a lot better than I thought. The ice also tore up the fiberglass hull. Never do that again :eek:

In any case I will use CA hinges again. They won't be bouncing off ice any more ;)

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DustOff, are you SURE those are CA hinges?

They look an awful lot like pinned hinges to me:

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MinnFlyer: there's a joke about you and your graphics in the humor fourm...

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Ooops sorry, bad mistake [:@]

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DOH!